2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
A 26-year-old girl became afraid to go to bed due to the fact that panic attacks began every night. I went to a neurologist, drank the pills that did not help, and the tests showed that everything was normal. I decided to go to a psychotherapist.
- I started having panic attacks at night and I immediately read about it on the Internet. They lasted five minutes and I did not have the frenzied panic that they are writing about. I dealt with them quickly.
About 3 weeks ago, I went to my parents, and there I started to thrash. We are sitting with my mother in the kitchen, and then I understand that everything around is starting to move away, and I feel that I’m going to lose consciousness. I was frightened that I could not influence it in any way. My heart is pounding, I can't breathe, and it doesn't go away in 5 minutes. This time the panic attack dragged on for 2 hours. It was 2 hours of hell.
After a couple of days, I went to bed and could not sleep: my heart began to pound very hard. I did not sleep until morning, nothing helped. All sorts of thoughts crept into my head, I thought: "What if something happens to the parents, since they are a little sick?" Now I am afraid to go to bed because I expect these panic attacks to appear.
- Panic attacks are always based on fear of death. Let's think, what are you afraid of?
- My grandmother died about 6 years ago (crying). My grandparents and I were very close, because my mother and father spent little time on me as a child. When my grandmother and grandfather were sick, I was afraid every time that they would die, and I alone would not be able to cope.
- Are panic attacks associated with the fear of the death of parents, because you do not know how to cope further on your own?
- Yes, I think that's why.
- What thoughts provoke and aggravate a panic attack?
- I specifically observed myself and noticed that the heart does not live its own life, it just reacts to my thoughts. I used to think that my heart was starting to beat hard, and because of this I wind myself up. But no, that's not how it happens. I should think that Mom and Dad will get sick or are already sick, and it starts right away. Or I think I have some kind of an unidentified disease.
And that's it, my mood drops, thoughts appear that I won't be able to cope.
- It turns out that you mentally mortify your parents and yourself?
- It turns out that way…
- During panic attacks, do you listen to your thoughts or your heart more? What does your heart want to tell you?
- Yes, I thought that I needed to go in for sports, that I did not have enough cardio loads.
- Let's imagine, the heart is actively beating - open, hear me! But you do not hear him and begin to mortify yourself even more. What will happen to the heart next?
- Will beat even harder.
- What does it mean, what it wants to tell you?
- This is a signal that I am alive and I want to live!
- The heart really wants to live, but you do not listen to it. Listen to your thoughts instead of your body and kill yourself with your thoughts. And the heart gives the signal that you are alive.
- Class) Yes, this is very responsive!
- Let's imagine a panic attack begins and is accompanied by a strong heartbeat. You perceive this not as a signal of death, but as a confirmation of life: "I am alive." Fearfully?
- Not so (laughs).
- Is it scary to be alive or scary to die? What is actually more scary - to hear how the heart is beating, or how it stopped beating, stopped?
- It is more terrible when the heart stops.
- The beat of the heart is a symbol of life. Your task is to pass all your thoughts through the filter of "mortification" and "life". If some thought wants to drive you into the grave, then the heart comes to the rescue and signals: "I am alive and there is no need to mortify me."
- I will definitely try it, it’s not scary to think so. Thank you!
In the consultation, we figured out the reason for the appearance of panic attacks. It became clear that their reason was not physical health, but thoughts. The presentation of pictures of the parents' death and their own death led to a strong heartbeat, which was initially interpreted by the client as a death signal. During the consultation, the beat of the heart was transformed into a signal for life, and the heart itself became a helper for the client, who reminds her that she is alive. Panic attacks disappeared after the first consultation, but further work followed in the direction of self-confidence, the search for inner support in order to be able to cope in life on their own.
Death, sooner or later, will come to all of us. Therefore, let us, if we die, then only once.
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